I still have trouble with the word “like” dropped in…it was borrowed from the hip musicians’ world, adapted by the teens and college crowd, and now has become a pointless verbal punctuation mark! It smacks of a weak spot in the education of the speaker. It is also difficult to explain to people who are learning to speak English! It’s a shame such a useless interruption has to break the flow of a usually decent sentence. (OK…end of, like, rant. )